India Fifty people were killed and around 150 injured when passenger trains collided head-on in the northern Indian state of Punjab, Punjab Chief Minister Amarinder Singh said. Chile A Chilean judge indicted former dictator Augusto Pinochet to stand trial for murder and kidnappings carried out under his 1973-1990 iron-fisted rule, but a decision to place him under house arrest was later suspended. Iraq At least one Iraqi national guard was killed in the second suicide bombing in two days outside Baghdad's Green zone, as two more marine deaths brought to 11 the number of US troops to die in fighting since Saturday. Meanwhile the chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff, General Richard Myers, arrived in Baghdad. China Three intellectuals detained by police were released after being interrogated and warned to halt writings critical of China's ruling Communist Party, in an apparent renewed crackdown on dissent. China Five workers are dead and 13 are missing after a fire at a mine in central China, officials said, as rescuers continued trying to reach 36 miners missing after an earlier mine disaster in the southwest. Burundi A referendum to set up a power-sharing system for Burundi, originally scheduled for December 22, has been postponed again, the central African country's electoral commission said. Afghanistan Afghan security forces have captured fugitive Taliban leader Mullah Mohammed Omar's former security chief in southern Afghanistan, a senior security official said. Turkey Turkey and the International Monetary Fund have completed talks on a new three-year stand-by deal supported by a loan of 10 billion dollars (7.5 billion euros), Turkish Economy Minister Ali Babacan said. EU Turkey does not have to acknowledge accusations of genocide against Armenians living under Turkish rule in the early 20th century as a pre-condition for opening talks on EU membership, French Foreign Minister Michel Barnier said.